Deepti News Letter December 2016 Deepti Rehabilitation Centre Deepti Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy (Now known as Deepti Rehabilitation Centre) was founded on 19th August 2009 to care and sup- port children with special needs and their fami- lies in Kerala. The motivation for Deepti Centre is the experience of Dr. Mathew C.Vargheese and Dr. Susan Mathew having a child with Cerebral Palsy. Deepti Rehabilitation Centre provides physiotherapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy for children Deepti Special School Deepti Special School was officially inaugurated on 10th August 2010. Deepti Special School is a major step in addressing the educational needs of these children. Now 157 children with various challenges such as Cerebral Palsy, Autism, ADHD, Downs Syndrome, and Mental Retardation are enrolled at Deepti. Motto: Enabling the Present Enlightening the Future Aim and Objectives Deepti Special School aims the holistic education of children who are differently-abled and facing various Challenges. The School works towards academic excel- lence, development of skills and talents and character formation in fear of God and service of humanity so as to mould intellectually trained , physically strength- ened, socially committed and spiritually enlightened children. Mathru Deepti (Mothers at Deepti) Mathrudeepti is a fellowship of mothers at Deepti who come together, share their experi- ence, hope, improvement of their children in order to encourage and strengthen each other in their challenges and struggles. They receive counselling and support from Deepti. Vocational training such as Tailoring, Fabric Painting and Printing, Detergent Making, Jewellery making, Paper Bag and Card Making etc are given to the parents. Support Deepti Your help is needed for some one who is special. Donate to Deepti. Please make a transfer (in Rupees only) to Deepti Educational & Charitable Foundation (Reg No.27/2012) Federal Bank , Manakala Acc. 16950100021359 IFSC: FDRL 0001695 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased” The words of the angelic choir during the first Christmas was reverberated through the lips of Deepti Carol Singers, as they visited homes singing songs celebrating the advent of the saviour of the world. This is the first time Deepti organized a Christmas Carol, comprised of children, staff and parents. People waited in the night, with love and special delicacies to share with them. The monitory gifts received during the carol rounds will be used to help our parents who are financially struggling. Deepti in the public domain again Prakasham Parathunna Amma (Mother who spreads light) was the caption of the feature about the story of Deepti Special School, published in the leading women’s magazine -Vanitha December issue 2016. The story of Deepti was penned by Ms. Sreerekha, news reporter of Vanitha, after her visit to Deepti School along with the photog- rapher Mr. Sreekanth and interview- ing the founders. We received feed - back of many readers, saying this was a truly inspirational and heart touching story. We had increased number of visitors to Deepti after they read the feature. Earlier, the story of Deepti was published by DC Book’s Future Women Maga- zine (Sept 2015)with the title Susan’s Children and Mathrubhumi News Paper in Daily in (March 22, 2014 ) Ezhupathonnu Makkalude Amma (Mother of 71 children). Dr. Susan Mathew in the National Executive Committee of PARIVAAR Dr. Susan Mathew, the Co-founder and Head of the Institution of Deepti Special School, has been nominated to the National Executive Committee of Parivaar, which is a National Federation of over 230 Parents Associa- tions and NGO’s in 30 States of India working for people with intellectual disability, Autism, Cerebral Palsy and Multiple Disabilities. She attended the Parivaar Executive Committee meeting held in Jalandhar, Punjab from Nov 10-12, 2016. It is a great opportunity to net work with other organizations that are working in the area of disabilities .